MadMup.com

I never expected it to happen to me. I’m not sure how it did. I’m frustrated and I feel helpless.

I can’t login to my Yahoo! account. It won’t recognize my password and the password recall function isn’t working for me. On some computers I had it set to “Remember Me” and can still do some things, like make my picks for the football league I’m in see that I have 5 emails. But when it asks me to verify my password so I can check my email, it says it’s incorrect.

I’ve gone through the proper channels with tech support but have heard nothing from them. I hate, hate, hate being up against something faceless – I can’t talk to an actual person to get anything resolved, and don’t know what I can do from here.

I only use my Yahoo! email for a few things, but I do use it. More importantly, though, my Flickr account is tied into my Yahoo account and if I can’t log in to Yahoo, I can’t log in to Flickr.

I guess the loss isn’t too big, in the grand scheme of things. It’s the effect it’s having on my psyche that’s harder to take. I’m losing my faith in technology. It’s always been there for me, you know? It does what it’s told, and when it fails it’s usually pretty easy to figure out why. But this… well, it makes no sense. I have different passwords on my different accounts and I use them every day, so I know which one goes with what and I know which password went with this one. So since this happened with Yahoo!, is it going to happen with my other stuff? I didn’t lose much with this one, but I’ve got plenty to lose with some of the others and no easy way to back it up. In fact, having it online was the way to back some of it up.

I’m actually on edge, feeling nervous. I don’t like it and I still feel powerless to do anything about it.

It’s been a long time since a linked to a game review I wrote, for a couple of reasons, really: people didn’t seem too terribly interested and it felt kind of silly.

I’ve been informed that the ol’ site here could use an infusion of silly after all the morbid and heavy posts lately, so here’s a link to my latest review, Marvel Ultimate Alliance for the Xbox.

The short version is that I really liked the game a lot. It lets you team up any four Marvel superheroes from a little over 20 choices. My team of choice was Wolverine, Spider-Man, Ghost Rider, and Spider Woman. A bit heavy on the Spider-people, I know, but Spider-Man had to be in there, and Spider Woman had some neat healing effects and long-range attacks.

I’ve been working for Digital Entertainment News for 2.5 years now and have written 45 game reviews, most of them for games I didn’t enjoy playing. Overall, though, I have enjoyed the experience and I don’t thank my boss often enough for the opportunity. Here’s a public shout-out (am I allowed to give shout-outs? I guess we’ll see) to my boss: Thanks for the cool opportunity and all your patience, monk!

I hope you’ve had a good Thanksgiving and remembered all the good things that have happened to you in the last year. I took some time out to do that myself, and it was extra-nice to be included in a friend’s remembrances via phone call.

Aside from that, though, I’ve been sick all day. All week, really, but it started getting worse last night. I slept fitfully and woke up hardly able to breathe. Luckily Meijer was open today and I was able to get some medicine. Dayquil got me through a good portion of the day.

I should have taken some NyQuil about an hour ago, but I resisted it. Oh, I needed it. The sniffing and the hard to breathe started long ago. I knew NyQuil would help, but it seems so final. Once I’ve taken it, I’ve got a half hour to an hour or so before I start to get a little loopy and fuzzy-headed. On top of that, it’s some of the nastiest stuff a person can ingest willingly. I always want to follow it up with something else, but I’m afraid of diluting its power or something.

I finally took some about five minutes ago, so I should sleep pretty well tonight. If you happen to call after I’ve gone to sleep I might answer, but it might be weird for you. Consider yourself warned.